Department for Transport

Cars: Lighting

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to creating new regulations oncar headlight glare, in the light of the number of drivers reporting problems with dazzling, particularly from LEDs.

Baroness Vere of Norbiton: Regulations are already in place to help prevent headlamps, including those using LED technology, from causing dazzle and glare. Vehicle manufacturers must supply evidence that their new vehicles comply with international road vehicle approval regulations and the requirements applied to headlamps define maximum and minimum intensity, light pattern and position on the vehicle. In addition, domestic legislation prohibits the use of headlamps that cause undue dazzle or discomfort for other road users and headlamp aim is checked at the annual MOT test. Police recorded collision statistics in Great Britain do not show any discernible trend over time that would suggest an underlying road safety issue linked to advances in lighting technology. The Department’s officials continue to support international activity reviewing the relevant vehicle lighting standards.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Vacancies: Migrant Workers

Lord Taylor of Warwick: To ask His Majesty's Government whatsteps they are taking to address reported labour shortages; and what assessment they have made ofthe impact of current immigration rulesonworkforce levels.

Lord Callanan: The labour market is strong by historical standards. The overall inactivity rate, a factor in labour shortages, remains historically low. Where low pay is a barrier to certain sectors, the Government is supporting better pay by, for example, ensuring that all tips go to staff and increasing the National Living Wage to £10.42 an hour. The Government is also investing £3.8bn into skills and further education over this Parliament to ensure workers can develop the skills that businesses need. The Home Office meet regularly with a range of industry stakeholders to discuss immigration policy and the needs of each sector.

Manufacturing Industries: Skilled Workers

Lord Taylor of Warwick: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that more skilled workers are employed in the infrastructure sectors by the end of 2022.

Lord Callanan: BEIS continues to work with the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions, and representatives of the construction sector through the Construction Skills Delivery Group, which aims to drive increased investment in construction skills, including those relevant to the infrastructure sector. To date, the Group has made good progress in supporting a greater number of apprenticeship starts, encouraging pledges to transfer unspent Apprenticeship Levy funding, and to provide better information and easier routes into the industry for those seeking careers in construction.

Manufacturing Industries

The Lord Bishop of Southwark: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reduction of 2.3 per cent in manufacturing output for the three months to September 2022 compared to the previous three months; and the impact of this reduction on economic activity.

Lord Callanan: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise in global energy prices and supply chain issues have strained all corners of the UK economy including manufacturing.Manufacturing has recovered since the pandemic with output in 2021 almost 10% above its 2019 level while many comparably sized EU member states were still below 2019 levels. While manufacturing output has since declined it remains higher than at any time before the pandemic. The Government is committed to supporting the UK’s world-class manufacturing sector and is working closely with businesses during this challenging global economic context.

Electric Vehicles: Safety

Lord Foster of Bath: To ask His Majesty's Government what information they have received from Fire and Rescue Services about the safety of (1) e-bikes, and (2) e-scooters; and the safety of the batteries of those vehicles.

Lord Callanan: All e-bikes and e-scooters must comply with product safety legislation including the batteries used to power them. The Government maintains regular contact with the Fire and Rescue Services and has discussed many issues including fire incidents relating to e-bikes and e-scooters. We encourage users to follow available guidance, including from Electrical Safety First and from the London Fire Brigade, alongside manufacturer instructions on safe use.

Northern Ireland Office

Pharmacy: Northern Ireland

Lord Rogan: To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with Community Pharmacy NI about funding for pharmacies in Northern Ireland.

Lord Caine: This Government has had no discussions with Community Pharmacy NI about funding for pharmacies in Northern Ireland. The former Minister of State for Northern Ireland met a member of the Community Pharmacy NI board in December 2021 as part of a wider visit to businesses in Northern Ireland. The Government is acutely aware of the broader pressures facing health and social care services in Northern Ireland. A programme of reform at the devolved level is needed to tackle long-standing and systemic problems. Consecutive Executive Ministers have failed adequately to address this issue. In the absence of an Executive, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has introduced a Bill that clarifies the powers for Northern Ireland Departments to maintain delivery of public services. These powers are, however, limited. The Secretary of State has also set a Budget for this financial year. This Budget for Health provides £7.28bn in funding which is an increase of £228m above 2021/22 spending which included significant COVID-19 funding, or £786m if we compare to last year’s funding excluding the one-off COVID-19 funding. This will protect spending to address the critical health pressures in Northern Ireland. The Government’s immediate priority remains facilitating the restoration of a fully functioning Executive that can progress long-term solutions to transform healthcare in Northern Ireland. That is the best way to progress the necessary long-term solutions to healthcare.

Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Databases

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to reports on 13 November that Shared Care Record systems will be moved into the proposed Federated Data Platform without the seeking of further patient consent, what assessment they have made of (1) the Summary Care Record system, (2) the implications for this System of the proposed moves.

Lord Markham: Shared Care Records and the Federated Data Platform will operate separately. Shared Care Records will ensure that authorised health and care professionals providing direct care to patients have safe, secure and ready access to the person-based records and care plans required to provide high quality, individual and integrated care.There must be a clear, legal basis to use data held in Shared Care Records for purposes other than direct care, which includes explicit patient consent. Approval may be given under the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002, subject to advice from the Confidentiality Advisory Group of the Health Research Authority, which protects and promotes the interests of patients and the public while facilitating appropriate use of confidential patient information for purposes beyond direct patient care.

Telephone Systems: Digital Technology

Lord Kamall: To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in ensuring that analogue telecare devices continue to work safely after the digital switchover in 2025.

Lord Markham: Following a Ministerial meeting on 7 September on the telecommunications industry led digital switchover, on 24 November we wrote to telecare service providers and telecare device manufacturers to request the results of tests undertaken and recent alarm call data history, to understand the reliability of analogue telecare devices on digital telephone lines. This was supported by the Tech Enabled Care Services Association, the Local Government Association, the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, TEC Cymru, the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government and Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland. Initial data will be analysed and will be available by early February 2023. We have also agreed a Telecare Stakeholder Action Plan to encourage further testing of analogue devices, which will be published shortly.

Hospitals: Cambridge

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: To ask His Majesty's Government whenthey plan to commission the Cambridge Children’s Hospital; and when they expect the hospital to become operational.

Lord Markham: In 2018, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was allocated £100 million of Wave 4 Sustainability and Transformation Partnership funding for Cambridge Children’s Hospital. The Department and NHS England are working with the Trust regarding plans for the scheme, including delivery timescales.

Social Services: Finance

Lord Pendry: To ask His Majesty's Government, furtherto the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement on 17 November, what proportion of the £2.8bn funding increase for the social care sector will go towards supporting carer services and workers.

Lord Markham: The Government is continuing to finalise the conditions of this funding and further information will be issued to local authorities in due course.

NHS: Protective Clothing

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks byLord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 17 November (HL Deb cols 207GC to 215GC), how muchlonger 120 million items of PPE will be stored in China; and how much they anticipate this will cost.

Lord Markham: We aim to reduce the cost of storing personal protective equipment in China and further information will be available in due course.

NHS: Protective Clothing

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks byLord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 17 November (HL Deb cols 207GC to 215GC),how much it has cost to date tostore 120 million items of PPE in China.

Lord Markham: From April to September 2022, the cost of storing personal protective equipment in China was £16.3 million. We aim to further reduce this expenditure.

Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

Lord Hylton: To ask His Majesty's Government which of His Majesty’s Prisons are still operating a 23-hour per day or similar lockdown; what are the reasons for the continued use of this practice; and what plans they have, if any, to stop this practice.

Lord Bellamy: Prisons operate regimes that are Safe, Decent, Secure, Resilient and Sustainable and most prisons are routinely operating normal regimes. Prisons will from time to time have to make difficult decisions on how they deploy limited staff resources to best facilitate activities and services using their ‘Regime Management Plans’. In the past 4 months, a small minority of prisons, including HMP Long Lartin and HMP Swaleside have had to significantly restrict their regimes for short periods due to staffing shortfalls. The Operations Stability and Resourcing Panel of HMPPS meets weekly to provide support to those prisons with the most acute resourcing pressures, where this is impacting the stability of the prison.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Humanitarian Aid

Lord Selkirk of Douglas: To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding the UK has contributed to the G7 Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Crises Compact since 2021.

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park: The Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Crises Compact was agreed during the UK's G7 Presidency and we have provided our share of the $7 billion in humanitarian assistance to the countries one step from famine in 2021. Globally we intend to spend UK humanitarian funding of £3 billion over the next three years. We continue to deliver on our policy commitments in the Compact. For example, in 2021 we partnered with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Germany to co-host the High-Level Event on Anticipatory Action.

British Indian Ocean Territory: Ilois

Baroness Lister of Burtersett: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Statement by the Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 3 November (HCWS354), what steps they are taking to take account of the views of the Chagossian communities, including those based in the UK, with regard to issues relating to the former inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago and their descendants.

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park: The UK and Mauritius have decided to begin negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory/Chagos Archipelago. We know there are a wide range of views among Chagossian communities about the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory / Chagos Archipelago and will ensure we have conversations with communities.

Ministry of Defence

Warships: River Clyde

Lord Berkeley: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the five new warships to be built on the Clyde are not subject to delay.

Baroness Goldie: The Type 26 Batch 2 contract is structured to motivate both the Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems to deliver a successful outcome, with both parties sharing in the pain and gain in delivering the programme, ensuring value for public money and protecting the taxpayers from any project overrun costs.The Batch 2 contract introduces further investment in BAE Systems' shipbuilding facilities on the Clyde, as demonstrated by the submission of planning application for a new Shipbuilding Hall at Govan, which will allow two frigates to be built under cover simultaneously and enable the ships to be built faster, improving the efficiency in the programme and expanding the facilities for future work at the yard.

Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety: Delivery Services

Lord Foster of Bath: To ask His Majesty's Government what health and safety measures fast food delivery companies are required to put in place to ensure employees carrying out deliveries on their behalf are charging their e-scooters and bikes safely.

Baroness Stedman-Scott: E-bikes provided by employers for use at work are classed as work equipment and employers should provide a charging unit recommended by the manufacturer; They should assess and manage the risks from e-bikes and chargers. Employers should make sure workers have the knowledge they need to use and maintain e-bikes safely, including giving them the information they need, e.g. manufacturer’s instructions, operating manuals and training courses. They should also check workers’ understanding of the information provided. Where an employer is providing charging facilities at their workplace to charge any e-bikes then they have a duty to ensure the chargers appear safe to use, facilities are suitably designed and situated, and instructions provided. In addition, the Health and Safety Executive have published guidance on the safe use of batteries, available at https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg139.pdf. The guidance includes advice to follow the battery manufacturer’s instructions on charging and to always use a dedicated, well-ventilated charging area.

Cost of Living: Low Incomes

Lord Taylor of Warwick: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support low income families with the increased cost of living this winter.

Baroness Stedman-Scott: The government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living this Winter and is taking action to support people with their energy bills. The government’s Energy Price Guarantee, running from October 2022- March 2023, will save a typical British household around £900 this winter, based on what energy price would have been under the current price cap – reducing bills by roughly a third. This is in addition to the over £37bn of cost of living support announced earlier this year which includes the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme. The £37bn also includes cost of living payments worth up to £650 (paid in 2 lump sums of £326 and £324) which have targeted support at around 8 million low-income households on means-tested benefits. In addition, 6 million eligible disabled people have received a one-off disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 and pensioner households will receive a one-off payment of £300 alongside the Winter Fuel Payment from November. For those who require additional support the current Household Support Fund, running from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023, is providing £421m of funding for those most in need. The devolved administrations have been allocated £79 million through the Barnett formula. To ensure stability and certainty for households, in the Autumn Statement the Government has announced £26bn in cost of living support for 2023/24. This includes Cost of Living Payments for the most vulnerable. In 2023/24, households on eligible means-tested benefits will get up to a further £900 in Cost of Living Payments. A £300 payment will be made to pensioner households and individuals in receipt of eligible disability benefits will receive a £150 payment. Also included is the amended Energy Price Guarantee which will save the average UK household £500 in 2023-24 and raising the benefit cap by 10.1% in line with inflation. For those who require extra support, the Government is providing an additional £1 billion of funding, including Barnett impact, to enable the extension of the Household Support Fund in England in the next financial year. This is on top of what we have already provided since October 2021, bringing total funding to £2.5 billion. In England this will be delivered through an extension to the Household Support Fund backed by £842 million, running from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, which local authorities use to help households with the cost of essentials. It will be for the devolved administrations to decide how to allocate their additional Barnett funding. In addition, we are uprating benefits for working age households and disabled people, as well as the basic and new State Pensions, all by 10.1%. We are also increasing the National Living Wage by 9.7% to £10.42 an hour from April 2023.

Pension Funds

Lord Taylor of Warwick: To ask His Majesty's Government what update they can provide on the implementation of their pension funds plan for 2023.

Baroness Stedman-Scott: The Department’s formal consultation on the draft Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2023 closed on 17 October 2022 and we are currently analysing responses. These Regulations will come into force in due course along with the Pension Regulator's revised Defined Benefit Funding Code of Practice.

Winter Fuel Payment

Lord Marlesford: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer byBaroness Stedman-Scott on 27 October (HL2738), when they expect to have a figure available for the expenditure on the winter fuel allowance during the year 2020–21.

Baroness Stedman-Scott: The DWP benefit and expenditure tables show the outturn for winter fuel payments for the year 2020/21 to be £1,958 million in nominal terms. Further detail can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2022 The Winter Fuel Payment statistics for 2020/21 and 2021/22 have now been published and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payments-caseload-and-household-figures

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme

The Lord Bishop of Southwark: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the seasonal workers’ scheme.

Lord Benyon: Over recent months the Government, predominantly through the Department for Transport and Defra, has had a sustained dialogue with haulage companies and other organisations involved in the goods supply chain, as well as ministers and officials in the Devolved Administrations. This has included ministerial and industry roundtables, industry summits and tailored workshops.Through this dialogue, we have been able to strengthen communication between government and industry and discuss issues and solutions, on a range of matters that have the potential to cause disruption to UK supply networks, especially with regard to the supply of food. This includes logistics issues at ports of entry for goods entering the UK, labour shortages across the supply chain (particularly lorry drivers), and the domestic supply of carbon dioxide.

Fly Tipping: Crime Prevention

The Lord Bishop of Exeter: To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to grantingadditional powers to (1) the police, and (2) local authorities, to reduce fly-tipping.

Lord Benyon: Local authorities carry out enforcement activity for the vast majority of fly-tipping incidents. In recent years we have bolstered their powers by introducing fixed penalty notices of up to £400 and strengthening their powers to stop, search and seize the vehicles of suspected fly-tippers. The Environment Act 2021 will also help authorities better tackle waste crime through better access to evidence and improved powers of entry. We have committed to raising fly-tipping penalties in our manifesto. We have published notice of our intention to commission a research project that considers the effectiveness of current enforcement practices which will inform policy development in this area. Local authorities can also prosecute fly-tippers. In collaboration with the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG) we have recently produced a guide on how local authorities, and others, can present robust cases to court to support sentences that properly reflect the severity of fly-tipping. The Environment Agency responds to the most serious illegal dumping incidents and has enforcement powers of its own.

Home Office

Victims: Slavery

Lord Randall of Uxbridge: To ask His Majesty's Government which minister in the Home Office has responsibility for victims of modern slavery within the UK.

Lord Murray of Blidworth: Modern Slavery is a complex issue, with links to crime, safeguarding and immigration.Therefore, as set out on gov.uk, the Minister of State for Immigration, The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick, will have responsibility for aspects of the policy which link to the National Referral Mechanism and migration.The Safeguarding Minister, Sarah Dines, leads on victim support policy across all crime types, as well as the Home Office relationship with the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority.

Asylum: Children

Lord Hylton: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the practice of placing unaccompaniedasylum-seekingchildren in hotels, with little or no supervision.

Lord Murray of Blidworth: The UK is experiencing an unprecedented increase in the number of people making life-threatening journeys to cross the Channel. These boats are often carrying unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). Out of necessity and with the children’s best interests in mind, we have arranged for them to be accommodated on an emergency and temporary basis in hotels whilst placements with local authorities are being vigorously pursued. These emergency interim hotels only accommodate unaccompanied asylum seeking children.We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children accommodated temporarily in these hotels are as safe and supported as possible whilst we seek urgent placements with a local authority. Young people are supported with wrap-around care by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Lord Hylton: To ask His Majesty's Government what payments have been made to the government of France in each of the last five yearsin relation to cross-Channel migration; and what is their estimate of such spending for this financial year.

Lord Murray of Blidworth: The UK and France maintain a longstanding relationship on tackling illegal migration at the shared border.In January 2018 both countries signed the Sandhurst Treaty. The UK made a commitment of €50 million (£45.5m) to implement the terms of the Treaty, which adopted a “whole of route approach” to tackling illegal migration.In 2019 the two countries signed the Joint Action Plan on Combatting Illegal Migration Involving Small Boats under which The UK committed €3.6m (approximately £3.25m). This was supplemented with a further €2.5m (£2.25m) dedicated to the deployment of gendarme reservists and preventive security measures at the French coast.In 2020 the UK pledged €31.4 million (roughly £28.1 million) to support joint efforts to tackle the rise in small boat crossings. A further bilateral arrangement was reached on 20 July 2021 supported by UK investment of €62.7 million (approximately £54 million).Most recently, on 14 November the Home Secretary agreed to a new multi-year strategic and operational plan with Minister Darmanin, supported by investment of up to €72.2 million euros (approximately £62.2 million) this financial year.Joint work with the French has led to over 23,000 small boat crossings being prevented in 2021 and over 30,000 so far this year.Alongside this we have dismantled 55 organised crime groups (OCGs) and made over 500 arrests supported by the work of the UK-France Joint Intelligence Cell.

Crime: Rural Areas

The Lord Bishop of Exeter: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the rising levels of crime and low conviction rates in rural areas.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter: To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to setting up rural crime units.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the conviction rate for rural crime.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter: To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they plan to issue to farmers to protect themselves from violent crime.

Lord Sharpe of Epsom: The Statistical Digest of Rural England, published in August 2022 by DEFRA, states “average crime rates (police recorded crime) are lower in rural areas than urban areas”. However, we recognise that some crimes are unique and specific to rural areas.The Home Office routinely publishes information on the number of offences recorded each quarter and the investigative outcomes of crimes including charges recorded by the police in England and Wales by offence category which can be found at Gov.UK. Our manifesto committed us to use our additional police resources to tackle rural crime. As at 30 September 2022, 15,343 additional uplift officers have been recruited in England and Wales through the Police Uplift Programme, 77% of the target of 20,000 additional officers by March 2023. The deployment of these officers, and the creation of any local rural crime unit, is an operational decision for Chief Constables. In addition, we are taking steps to address issues that we know affect rural communities. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act empowers and equips the police and courts with the powers they need to combat hare coursing. The Government is also providing funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit.The Government is also committed to reducing serious violence and putting an end to the tragedies afflicting our communities. This financial year (22/23) we are investing £130 million in tackling serious violent crime, including homicide and knife crime. This includes £64m for Violence Reduction Units, and an extra £30 million to support the police in taking targeted action in parts of England and Wales most affected by serious violence.

Cabinet Office

Abuse: Older People

Lord Patten: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of people aged over 65 who were victims of (1) physical, (2) psychological, and (2) sexual, abuse for the most recent year for which figures are available.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question: HL3614 is attached. Victims of Abuse (pdf, 118.0KB)

Public Health

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they havemade of the public health impacts, including on loneliness, lack of opportunities for physical activity and provision of services locally to where people live, of the sale of public buildings and spaces each year in England.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: Any decision involving the sale of public buildings will consider social cost and public value, in line with HM Treasury Green Book guidance. Property sales may form part of a wider programme. Where this is the case, the net social value will form part of the overall cost benefit analysis.

Hospitals: China

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the letter fromBaroness Neville-Rolfe on 9 November regarding thehospital being built in Hangzhou, China, by the International Hospital Group, whether it will include organ transplantation facilities.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: The hospital being built in Hangzhou, China, referred to in Baroness Neville-Rolfe’s correspondence of 9 November, has neither the relevant licences nor capability to perform organ transplants of any kind, and there are no plans to apply for such licences.

Committee of Privileges

Lord Howard of Rising: To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the legal opinion by Lord Pannick published by the Government on 2 September relating to the House of Commons Privileges Committee, whether any supplementary opinion has been provided to the Government byLord Pannick.

Lord Howard of Rising: To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the legal opinion byLord Pannick published by the Government on 2 September relating to the House of Commons Privileges Committee, what plans they have, if any, to publish any second or supplementary opinion byLord Pannick.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: Notwithstanding that in the exceptional circumstances the Government at the time determined it was in the public interest for Lord Pannick’s legal opinion to be published, it remains the case that the Government does not comment on legal advice that may or may not have been sought or received. This is in line with the long-standing policy under successive administrations.

Liver Diseases: Death

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of deaths from liver disease since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Noble Lady’s Parliamentary Question: HL3553 is attached. Liver Disease (pdf, 109.2KB)

Intelligence and Security Committee

Lord Tyrie: To ask His Majesty's Government what formal discussions they have had with (1) the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, and (2) the Committee as a whole, since June 2016.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: His Majesty's Government regularly engages with the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, and with the Committee as a whole. Details of formal interactions with the Government are published in the Committee's Annual Reports, which are publicly available on the Committee's website.The Government values the work of the Committee, and understands the importance of regular engagement as part of an effective oversight relationship.

Treasury

Coinage: Latin

Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court: To ask His Majesty's Government what is their policy on the use of Latin on the coinage.

Baroness Penn: The designs of UK coins are approved by the Chancellor as Master of the Mint, His Majesty The King and the Privy Council. This process is supported by the advice of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, whose role is to ensure that designs meet high standards. UK coinage includes a combination of Latin and English.

Greyhound Racing: Tax Yields

Lord Lipsey: To ask His Majesty's Government what is the estimated overall contribution of licensed greyhound racing to HM Treasury in the latest available year; and in the two years before that, what is the estimated taxation revenue received through (1) bookmakers who offer bets on greyhound racing, and (2) directly from greyhound racing.

Baroness Penn: HMRC does not hold information on the breakdown of General Betting Duty revenue by forms of betting such as greyhound racing, horseracing and football. Revenue from General Betting Duty largely paid by bookmakers on all forms of betting was £586 million in 2019 to 2020, £595 million in 2020 to 2021 and £649 million in 2021 to 2022.